A Man from Mesopotamia Ur of Chaldeans, specifically Karemlash! Left to Europe … later to the New World … a journey around the world … experiences … difficulties … Spiritual life … Different people … Different cultures … Different languages … (Aramaic - Arabic - Italian - French - English) who knows what else… On his way to follow the word of God … and His beloved Son JESUS CHRIST * Forever.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

About Me

Fr. Felix Shabi
I was Born in "Karemlash", near Mosul, Iraq 1975. In 1992 I entered "Simon Peter Seminary" of the "Chaldean Patriarchate of Babylon" in Baghdad and was ordained a priest on June 29, 1998. I worked in the Chaldean Diocese of Mosul between 1998 and 1999 as a pastor of St. Joseph parish in the time of Archbishop George Garmo. In the summer of 1999 I received a scholarship from my diocese to study in Rome. I joined the Pontifical Oriental Institute of Rome (Pontificio Istituto Orientale) for just over two years and gained a master's degree in the canon law of the Eastern Churches. Arriving in United States of America on Thanksgiving Day Nov 27, 2002, I was named a parochial vicar of St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Cathedral in San Diego California. On February 2006 I went back to Rome to pursue my doctoral studies. After five years on my pastoral service in the new diocese, I was ordained Chorbishop of the Diocesan Chancery of St. Peter Eparchy on December 07, 2007 by his Excellency bishop Sarhad Y. Jammo. I am still working as a diocesan chancellor since then ...